ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme

Name: Odete Martins Alves, Ornelia Djedje, Mariquia Ubaire, Imaculada dos Santos, Rosinha Saize Gumanhange, Anabela Chicane, Gilda Monjane 

Title of RWP: Support Women economic empowerment through health, environmental, and sustainable sound projects 

Brief Description: Support Women economic empowerment through health, environmental, and sustainable sound projects linked to: 

• Improved production of cook stoves and roof tiles with local clay association; including promotion of crushed stones for construction through enhanced entrepreneurial, cooperatives and leadership skills, enhance strategic and value chain through participatory market design; construction to improve housing condition of the miners in rural areas;
• See possibility to link the improved housing condition to PV projects in order to allow the improved houses be connected to clean energy forms, as they are located very far away from the grid energy;
• Promotion of bio digesters for rural communities farmers in existing feed stock areas to avoid intensive use of forestry resources ;
• Improve gender integration in the extractive industry, especial in the small scale mining ;
• Increase the number of associations/cooperatives 

Workshop: Regional Sharefair on Gender Equality in the Extractives Industries, Kenya, October 2015.

Full Progress Report not submitted yet.